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Welcoming Newcomers to the Networking Industry with Janine Malcolm | Network AF Podcast Ep. 3

Today's conversation is with Janine Malcolm, Director of Network Engineering at Salesforce. Janine takes us through her journey to get to where she is today and how she became interested in networking itself. Not only do they get into the nitty-gritty of networking, but also what you can do to get into the industry and why having a college degree isn't always necessary. Janine shares how we can make this space more welcoming to newcomers and advice on how you can start learning more and get your career going.

Future Trends & Technology for Your Integration Infrastructure

Integration is now the #1 IT expense category at many enterprises and new complexities increase the burden on Service Delivery, CI/CD, IBM MQ administration, and other “integration professionals” every day. Your enterprise has Microservices, Mobile, Mainframes, Cloud, and more applications and application updates than you can count and it takes the routing of transactions, messages and more through a rapidly growing integration infrastructure layer to make it all work together.

How to Quickly Identify Performance Issues in Azure SQL Database

Moving your database to the cloud using a PaaS option such as Azure SQL Database or Azure SQL Managed Instance reduces the maintenance overhead required from the database administrator (DBA). The DBA no longer must worry about managing backups or configuring high availability, for example. That said, the DBA still needs to tune the database’s performance and monitor SQL workloads. The Azure Portal offers several services to quickly identify performance issues for Azure SQL Databases.

Don't let Prometheus Steal your Fire

Prometheus is an open-source, metrics-based event monitoring and alerting solution for cloud applications. It is used by nearly 800 cloud-native organizations including Uber, Slack, Robinhood, and more. By scraping real-time metrics from various endpoints, Prometheus allows easy observation of a system’s state in addition to observation of hardware and software metrics such as memory usage, network usage and software-specific defined metrics (ex.

Monitoring as a service, here we come!

On the way to perfecting its services, Pandora FMS launches one of the most advanced and complete solutions in its history as monitoring software: Monitoring as a Service (MaaS). As we all know by now, Pandora FMS is a software for network monitoring that, among many other possibilities, allows visually monitoring the status and performance of several parameters from different operating systems (servers, applications, hardware systems, firewalls, proxies, databases, web servers, routers…).

AIOps Summit Recap: Why Observability is Key, and How to Get There

“It’s not rocket science.” In the past, we’ve all heard that statement made. Quite often, it’s applicable. It’s true we can overthink or unnecessarily overcomplicate matters. Don’t tell that to someone who’s responsible for network performance and continuity today, however.

6 All Too Common Network Security Hacks Your Team Should Know About

As an IT pro, you’re probably used to doing the heavy lifting when it comes to network security. You might even find your team responsible for educating the rest of your company on best practices when it comes to network common security hacks and how to prevent them. Today, we’re here to lighten that load a little.

Illuminate 2021 - Embracing open standards for big picture observability

We just wrapped up a fantastic 5th Illuminate, Sumo Logic’s user conference, filled with amazing customer speakers, partners, and Sumo Logic experts all sharing their insights and expertise. The level of engagement taking place during presentations, workshops and executive meetings showed the high level of interest in open telemetry, unified analytics and full-stack observability to solve the challenges inherent in application modernization and cloud migration.

How to Pivot Your Data in Flux: Working with Columnar Data

Relational databases are by far the most common type of database, and as software developers it’s safe to say that they are the kind of database most of us got started on, and probably still use on a regular basis. And one thing that they all have in common is the way they structure data. InfluxDB, however, structures data a little bit differently.

Webinar - Beyond Selenium, Synthetic Monitoring for the 2020s

Monitoring the Impossible What if a solution could look for user interface elements based on their appearance and interact with them via mouse and keyboard events, just like a person? Understand the challenges and limitations of Selenium and how you can overcome them with 2 Steps technology in this webinar. The first instalment in the Monitoring the Impossible Webinar series was brought to you by 2 Steps.